Howdy Ranchers!
I would like to share my story with you. Today I've passed the Oracle Certified Expert
JEE 6
JSP and
Servlet Developer Exam, in short called: OCEJEE6JSPSD ;-) with 84%.
It was kinda new experience, as there are no mock tests about the new SCWCD exam which was released only few days ago (14.04.2011). So, after doing some tests from Head First book, SCWCD Study Companion book and Niko's tests I took the specification itself and work with it.
So, to give you a reference point, I had an average of 72% in Head First chapter questions, 60% in the Head First final exam, average of 77% in the SCWCD Study Companion chapter questions and average of 85% in Niko's Blog questions.
I am very disappointed with the
quality of the
test. There were many mistakes, the questions were poorly formatted, etc. It really shouldn't be present in the production exam. I.e. the spaces in questions were inappropriately transformed into slashes and backslashes so it looked like this:
it could really mess up if you have a question about EL and you see something like:
And there is no "compilation error" or any answer that would point that this chars are put there intentionally! It was an obvious error.
The next thing - one of the questions was so messed up that there was an instruction to "click on Exhibit". When you clicked it, there was a code (it
wouldn't compile because of the missing parenthesis) which has absolutely
no relation with the question which was about architecture
pattern.
In one of the questions which was talking about security constraints there was the following structure:
I guess that they missed the <role-name> element within the <auth-constraint>?
So thats about complaining, and now about the topics.
There were
no drag and drop questions - just pure test ones. There were no questions about asynchronous servlets, just 1 - 2 questions about custom tags, no questions about deferred expressions in JSP/EL. There were about 15% of questions about the new JEE 6 features like web fragments, listeners registration, programmatic security, servlets addition. Some questions were about pure HTTP methods and some about the patterns.
So I guess that's it - few days of break and I should move along to JEE 6 EJB's :-)
Cheers!